N.J. Admin. Code § 5:75-1.5
The following terms shall have the meanings indicated, except where the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Branch" means an organizational level having functional or geographical responsibility for major aspects of incident operations.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Community Affairs.
"Division" means the organization level having responsibility for operations within a defined geographic area.
"Duration of incident" means time-keeping starting with the initial 911 call to the public safety call center for the incident.
"Elapsed time on scene" means that time-keeping will start with the first arriving fire unit.
"Emergency incident" means any situation to which the fire department responds to deliver emergency services including, but not limited to, rescue, fire suppression, emergency medical care, special operations, and other forms of hazard control and mitigation.
"Fire department" means a fire service organization providing rescue, fire suppression and related activities. The term "fire department" shall include any public, governmental fire service organization engaging in this activity.
"Group" means an organizational level having responsibility for operations within a defined functional area.
"Hazardous area" means any location(s) that may pose a safety and/or health risk to firefighters due to, but not limited to, the presence of products of combustion, the existence of hazardous or otherwise oxygen deficient or oxygen enriched atmosphere, the potential for any immediately dangerous to life and health atmosphere, the use of hazardous equipment or operations, or the potential for any of these situations to exist. Additionally, any area or location that predisposes a firefighter to become lost, disoriented, or trapped, including any structure, confined space and wild land areas, shall be considered a hazardous area.
"Incident action plan" means an oral or written plan containing general objectives reflecting the overall strategy for managing an incident.
"Incident commander" means the individual responsible for all incident activities, including the development of strategies and tactics and the ordering and release of resources.
"Incident management system" means a nationally recognized and organized system of rules, responsibilities and standard operating procedures used to manage emergency operations.
"Logistics section" means the section responsible for providing facilities, services, and material support for an incident.
"Member" means a person, at least 18 years of age, who is involved in performing the duties and responsibilities of a fire department, under the auspices of the organization. For the purpose of this chapter, a fire department member may be a full-time or part-time employee, a paid or unpaid volunteer, may occupy any position or rank within the department and may or may not engage in emergency operations.
"Personnel accountability officer" means the person designated by the Incident Commander to monitor entry into and exit out of hazardous areas for the purpose of ensuring accountability of all personnel in the hazardous area or structure.
"Personnel accountability report" means the results of an accounting of all personnel on the emergency incident scene to the Incident Commander.
"Personnel accountability roll call" means the process of accounting of all personnel on the emergency incident scene.
"Safety officer" means a member of an incident command staff responsible for monitoring and assessing safety hazards and unsafe conditions, and for developing measures for ensuring personnel safety.
N.J. Admin. Code § 5:75-1.5